The Multi-man Genre and Poe's ByronsEdwin Mellen Press Limited, 1987 - 140 pages This work contends that Poe's use of Byron as antagonist was an example of the fragmentation of character - using reflections of Byron as seen by himself, by Poe, by his adulators and defamers - for literary effect. |
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... Already , thereby , some greater power seems to express itself in the fate of the families and their dwellings . In Don Juan ( XIII , lxiii , lxiv ) that power takes on a magical quality -- especially when the moon is full . But in the ...
... Already , thereby , some greater power seems to express itself in the fate of the families and their dwellings . In Don Juan ( XIII , lxiii , lxiv ) that power takes on a magical quality -- especially when the moon is full . But in the ...
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... already a fixed pole of Byron's mental world when he wrote the poem " Lines inscribed upon a Cup formed from a Skull , " dated 1808. The skull had been found during digging at Newstead , and the use it was put to heightens its ...
... already a fixed pole of Byron's mental world when he wrote the poem " Lines inscribed upon a Cup formed from a Skull , " dated 1808. The skull had been found during digging at Newstead , and the use it was put to heightens its ...
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... already too much an object for the scorn • · 1150 . . for the detestation ' of his race . Oh , outcast of all out- casts , most abandoned ! ' Did Poe share William Wilson's opinion that the real Wilson had been already too much an ...
... already too much an object for the scorn • · 1150 . . for the detestation ' of his race . Oh , outcast of all out- casts , most abandoned ! ' Did Poe share William Wilson's opinion that the real Wilson had been already too much an ...
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